Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-16


of evening editions. Years ago Mr..
Bennett issued the Telegram rs an af
ternoon ofishoot of the Herotd, and it
reached large circulation. This year
the Hcrdid's contemporaries have taken
the hint TO do likewise. The first of
them to do so was the Sun, which sent
out the first copy Of its evening edition
last March at half the price of the
Telegram, which is two cents. The
Ercning Sun sprang into popu-
larity at once, and its presses
have been running off not far from
100000 copies daily, price cent. This
success, which went beyond anything
ever known in an evening paper OF
New York, stimulated the enterprise OF
Mr.. Dorsheimer, Of the star, who
few weeks ago whirled out his afternoon
edition and gave the newsboys another
cry. 1t was not to be supposed that
Pulitzer, of the World, would stand
still when such race was in progress,
and on the 10th of October the evening
edition Of the WOrid appeared on the
streets in the hands of hundreds of
hoarse-voiced little news-venders, price
cent. The competition between
these four evening editions and
the rival morning papers is ire
mendous, and their competition
with the old afternoon organs. with
which New Workers have long been
familiar, is not less so. The flying
messengers pursue the crowded streets
with their bundles of papers and haunt
every locality where people are to be
found up to or 8 o'clock at night.
Tens of thousands of people now buy
evening papers who never before
bought them, and go to bed full to the
brim with all the news of the city and
the world. There are no facts at hand
about the extent to which they have
injured the older higher-priced after
noon papers, but the probability is that
the injury has been less than might be
supposed, and that they have, in large
part, raised new classes of readers for
themselves.
The other morning papers are now
talking of entering the evening field
and Joining the rivalry that grows by
what it feeds on" The chief owner of
the Times has been in brown study
on the subject, as well as the owner of
the JoUrndl, and it is probable that the
owner Of the Tribune has felt the in
fuence that is filling all the other edi-
torial-rooms of the city. The likeli-
hood is that we shall soon have swarm
of evening sheets such as is to be found
in no other great city in the world. In
fact, We have that already.
The newspaper rivalry which has
suddenly made its appearance has
proved highly advantageous to several
classes OF toilers. 1t has been God
send to at least hundred reporters
and writers; also to twice as many
typesetters and pressmen also to
thrice as many newsboys; also to the
telegraph companies; and, perhaps,
also to the capitalists who have thus IN
vested their money, but whose fierce
rivalry is not free from elements Of
danger.
CAPTURED BY A PRETTY GIRL.
One of the most plaintive and hope
less struggles have ever seen occurred
at the big Anti-Poyerty Fair the other
night at Madison-Square Garden. The
huge structure was filled by a surging
and teeming mass Of Irish American
enthusiasts talking about labor move
ments, DIR. McGlynn, Socialism, DIR.
McGlynn, poverty, Dr. McGlynn, and
Dr. McGlynn ever and ever afterward.
/ The snug face of the ex-priest and keen
political worker looked out of every
pictrVe-frame, and all sorts OF things,
from washtubs to roses. bore the mystic
name of McGlynn.
At the very height of the excitement
Saturday night tall, fair, suave, and
misunderstanding Englishman paid
his ten cents at the door and strolled
into the building with the manner OF
man who is seeing the sights OF the
town. He was Londoner and unmis-
tskably British from the tips Of his
sturdy boots and dOgskin gloves to the
crown of his Cooksey hat. His face
was ford and be stared about him
through single glass with the mingled
air OF hauteur, arroganance, and acute
disapproval of the world in general
which belongs exclusively to the
natives of the sturdy little king
dom across the sea. Thousands OF Irish
ewes were turned on the arrival as he
surveyed the mob, and not a friendly
glance came from any OF them. The
BIiton moved forward and the crowd
parted surlily for him to pass. A girl
who had observed the arrival from one
Of the booths jumped to the floor at
this point, made her way rapidly
through the crowd to the Englishman,
and, stepping in front OF him, placed
her arms akimbo and looked up in his
face. She was a typical New York girl
from the cast side of town-plump,
pert, pretty, and serene. Her big, gray
Irish eyes stared up at the visitors face
with wonderful eXpressiveness, and he
looked down at them amusedly.
81 know what you want, mlud, said
the girl, softly.
"What do / want, m'lady?' asked
the Englishman.
"Y' want what I kin give y'u an
whetll make y happy ferevermore-a
bu'ful picture t cheer y'u in yer hours
of gloom an misery"
a picture of this person, Nc
Glynn ?"
"Nixie, m 'lud, said the girl with a
grin that showed two glittering rows Of
white teeth. "a picture so bu'ful that
countless t'ousands has stood in frout
Of it an gasped fer JOY because it was
so luvly."
FIVE DOLLARS TO SEE HER FACE.
She evidently knew the power of hel
magnificent eyes, for she kept then
firmly fixed ON her victim. He looked
into them and was lost. Every light ii
the building was mirrored in then
shining depths, and when the English
man took 50 bill from his pocket anC
thrust it into the hard little fist of hi
: fair tormentor-she was a working
Y girl-le said softly:
I "My deob, I'm just completing {
$ four-yeahs tour of { world"
4 "Are you?" interrupted the cir
0 gently, as the color began to rise SLOWLY
1 in her face, can did y see many purty
s young ladies 2"
Q al have seen no end of them, bu
I not SINGLE one approached girl Nv
c just met in New York. He eyes ar
/ superb and she has the most beautiful
a face / have ever seem" He locke,
. Io,,, az her varv hard xvhila ber fac